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I just don't believe him to be God, like you all do. In fact, I believe worshiping Christ as God is Idoltry.

Well then, I have to wonder if you even watched this video at all. Or, if you just saw the title and posted to make a point, again wrongfully judging those around you, and holding yourself up as a "better" Christian, or a "better" person, than someone else because of your own prideful conceit.

You commit sin when you try and hold yourself out there as more an authority on God's word than someone else, then you are wrong from the start before you even write a word, or open your mouth.

We are all sinners, none perfect, but I don't believe Jesus, or any rational person today is down with the whole "I'm a better Christian than you" crap, and to tell you the truth, I have little stomach for people like you that approach their faith that way.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Robertson's biggest mistake with that quote was saying "they," as if he really had his finger on the pulse of the black community in early-60s Louisiana, and acting as if that was representative of the entire south. If he had just said "the people I knew," obviously not a first instinct, he's likely fine.

I don't think his racial comments were all that offensive. Ignorant, to be sure, but not offensive ... I'm willing to give him the BOTD that maybe he didn't know anyone adversely affected by Jim Crow. In certain areas of the South (mostly small towns where the white people weren't total assholes), it wasn't unheard of for the white folk to just ignore those laws. I think his gay comments were far worse than his racial comments.

I think his boiling homosexuality down to a preference for ass instead of the V is far more ignorant than saying that he, personally, didn't know any black folks who were upset about racist laws. He was born in 1946; the CRA didn't come down the pike until 1964; the last of Jim Crow ended in 1965. We don't know at what age he was pickin' cotton with the Negro folk. And the JC laws were far worse in the cities than they were in certain small towns (and, of course, they were far worse in OTHER small towns that I wouldn't go to NOW if I was a black guy).

He never said "blacks were happier before civil rights;" he also was an idiot for implying that because the few he knew weren't upset, that it was a representative sample of anything other than his anecdotal ignorant bull**** and acting like everything was hunky dory.

I'll buy this. It's possible that he meant less than what his words implied.

He referred to a time "pre", which is before, by definition. He also used an absurd broad brush by saying cotton picking folk were happy.

No. He was asked a question about that time period. What do you think "You say" means? He is responding to a question asked. "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy?"
He is answering a question of his own personal experience of that time. Not making any comparison.

Originally Posted by calamity

He was 18 in 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, 22 when MLK caught a bullet. It's not hard to figure out that the Jim Crow days are the golden years in which he refers.

What you are "figuring" are manifestations of your own convoluted and biased thoughts.

No. He was asked a question about that time period. What do you think "You say" means? He is responding to a question asked. "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy?"
He is answering a question of his own personal experience of that time. Not making any comparison.

What you are "figuring" are manifestations of your own convoluted and biased thoughts.

After 18 Phil goes from star QB to teacher to bar owner...his cotton picking days had to be prior to 1964, that's pre-civil rights and during Jim Crow. It's not rocket science.